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Yes Melissa, Gop is right here, the only other way to have central navigation other than changing the Style Template is to create your own using HTML, this method would take a lot longer and is much harder if you not one for HTML coding but would allow you to keep the same Style. Would you mind sharing your URl so I can take a look at your navigation as it is

You can amend this to make it appear align centered and see how it goes but please do it in a test page first to verify before bringing it to your previously developed pages. You would need to set the float to left and set a left margin which would depend on the number of menu items that you have. I don't know any dynamic center alignment tricks for menus.

If you are doing this with FireFox then I can recommend downloading Firebug and you can see in real time the effect of changes without jeopardising your previously working code. If changes are successful in Firebug then you can just copy these and plug them into an HTML placeholder placed at the top of your page(s)

You can amend this to make it appear align centered . You would need to set the float to left and set a left margin which would depend on the number of menu items that you have. It would be an iterative process by making adjustments and seeing what it looks like.. I don't know any dynamic center alignment tricks for such menus. Hoping that others will have that knowledge and jump in on this thread.

Moving the main content container:

The way I do this is a fidge to use the text placeholder. Apply whatever I need to in that with HTML and then adjust it with the margins setting. Top and Left with negative values. This is a way to move things out of the container rather than adjusting the container itself.Once again Firebug is invaluable with these adjustments.

If you are adding things like preformed widgets then place these in the HTML facility of the text widget. Of course you can use straight HTML to adjust the margins also in the HTML placeholder.

Finally check your end product with various screen size alterations because the container itself is optimised for use with the common screen sizes.

PS: I don't have any idea how this will affect the mobile presentation of the site. It's too new and i doubt many would have tried it with this in mind.

Melissa,

When you get this up and running would you mind doing a little write up of what you did. It's all valuable stuff for the knowledge of those wishing to approximate a liquid template. And thank you.

I would be happy to. I have had some great success with using custom CSS and inline HTML to finesse things quite nicely. I even added the use of a downloadable font. It may be a few of days, but I will gladly post some tips.

The Yola blog can be customised quite a lot with css/html. I agree that the basic design is very limited and the overall facilites extremely limited but generally you can work your way though or around most of them.

The way to do this is to create a list of your top requirements and then see what can be done vs what can't be done. Then you can make the decision to go ahead or not.

PS: Not talking about the WP sophistication :(

Appearance with styling: Can
Various Facebook connections: Can
Scheduling of posts: Can't
Date change of posts: Can't (but can do a pseudo change)
Linkbacks: Can
Stable URI's: Maybe
Comments: Can (DISCUS and maybe FB which will mean the comments can be seen without expanding the post)
RSS feeding: Can
Subscribed to Advertisements in the blog post: Can't
Subscription: Sort of. (FB and password protected blog page)
Export the blog posts: Most definitely cannot!
Import blog posts: Can't